Maurice Barrès
Maurice Barrès | |
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Born | Auguste-Maurice Barrès 19 August 1862 Charmes, Vosges, France |
Died | 4 December 1923 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France | (aged 61)
Occupation | Journalist, novelist, politician |
Literary movement |
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Auguste-Maurice Barrès (French:
Biography
Barrès was associated in his literary works with
Politically, he became involved with various groups such as the
Early years
Born at
He supplemented these apologies for his narcissism with L'Ennemi des lois (1892), and with an admirable volume of impressions of travel, Du sang, de la volupté, de la mort (1893). Barrès wrote his early books in an elaborate and often very obscure style.[citation needed]
The
The Roman de l'énergie nationale trilogy makes a plea for local patriotism,
- Scènes et doctrines du nationalisme (1902)
- Les Amitiés françaises (1903), in which he urges the inculcation of patriotism by the early study of national history
- Ce que j'ai vu à Rennes (1904)
- Au service de l'Allemagne (1905), the experiences of an Alsatian conscript in a German regiment
- Le Voyage de Sparte (1906).
He presented himself in 1905 to the
Barrès was also a friend since his youth of the occultist
Political activism
As a young man, Barrès carried his Romantic and individualist theory of the Ego into politics as an ardent partisan of
He shifted however to the right-wing during the
He founded the short-lived review
He was again beaten during the 1896 elections in Neuilly, as a candidate of the Socialist leader Jean Jaurès, and then again in 1897 as a nationalist anti-Semitic candidate, having broken with the left-wing during the Dreyfus Affair.[4]
Barrès then assumed the leadership of the
Close to the nationalist writer
Barrès was elected deputy of the Seine in 1906, and retained his seat until his death. He sat at that time among the
During World War I, Barrès was one of the proponents of the
After World War I, Barrès demanded the annexation of Luxembourg into the French Republic, and also sought to increase French influence in the Rhineland.[9] On 24 June 1920, the National Assembly adopted his draft aiming to establish a national day in remembrance of Joan of Arc.
Nationalism
This article is part of Conservatism in France |
Barrès is considered, alongside
This has been noted by Zeev Sternhell,[10] Michel Winock (who titled the first part of his book, Le Siècle des intellectuels, "Les Années Barrès" ("The Barrès' Years"), followed by Les Années André Gide and Les Années Jean-Paul Sartre),[11] Pierre-André Taguieff,[12] etc. He shared as common points with Paul Bourget his disdain for utilitarianism and liberalism.[5]
Opposed to
Barrès feared miscegenation of modern times, represented by Paris, claiming against
Contrary to popular belief, Maurice Barrès never used the term “le grand remplacement” [great replacement], either in his novel "L'appel au soldat" or anywhere else. However he did make use of the underlying concept, namely that the French national character was being harmed by immigration of certain ethnic groups.[16]
Hispanophilia
Barrès was a noted hispanophile.[17] Influenced by the romantic mythification of Spain, he described the country as "an Africa leaving your soul with a sort of furor so fast as chilli does in your mouth".[18] Always passionate about the "South" and "Orient", he emphasized in his work the period of Moorish domination.[19] He interpreted the Spain of the time as a nation refractory to the attempts of economic and bureaucratic rationalization threatening his own country.[17] He visited Spain in 1892, 1893 and 1902, capturing his vision of the country in his writings, taking a particular interest in Toledo.[20]
Dada and Barrès
The Dadaists organised in spring 1921 the trial of Barrès, charged with an "attack on the safety of the mind" ("attentat à la sûreté de l'esprit") and sentenced him to 20 years of forced labour. This fictitious trial also marked the dissolution of Dada - its founders, among whom was Tristan Tzara, refusing any form of justice even if organised by Dada.
Final years and death
An Orientalist romance, Un jardin sur l'Oronte (A Garden on the Orontes)—which would be the basis of an opera of the same name—was published in 1922, triggering what would be called la querelle de l'Oronte (the Orontes Quarrel).
Devout and sincere Catholics were shocked by the complacent, skilful, sometimes enchanting ways of Barrès in mixing the sacred and the profane. His heroine [Oriante] was both pagan and irresistible—and this provoked revolt.[21]
Barrès died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 4 December 1923.
Works in English translation
- The Undying Spirit of France, Yale University Press, 1917.
- "Young Soldiers of France". In The War and the Spirit of Youth, Atlantic Monthly Company, 1917.
- Colette Baudoche: The Story of a Young Girl of Metz, George H. Doran Company, 1918.
- "Officers and Gentlemen", The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CXXI, 1918.
- The Faith of France, Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1918.
- The Sacred Hill, The Macaulay Company, 1929.
- "Uprooted". In The World's Greatest Books, W. H. Wise & Co., 1941.
Other
- Massia Bibikoff, Our Indians at Marseilles, with an Introduction by Maurice Barrès, Smith, Elder and Company, 1915.
- Georges Lafond, Covered with Mud and Glory, with a Preface by Maurice Barrès, Small, Maynard & Company, 1918.
References
- ^ "Maurice Barres and His Books," The Living Age, 25 November 1922.
- ^ JSTOR 285883.
- ^ Académie française's website (in French)
- ^ a b c d e Biographical notice Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine French National Education website (Nancy) (in French)
- ^ a b c d e f Pascal Ory, "La nouvelle droite fin de siècle" in Nouvelle histoire des idées politiques (dir. P. Ory), Hachette Pluriel, 1987, pp. 457–465. (in French)
- ^ 5 Lessons of the DSK Affair, Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Daily Beast, 2 July 2011
- ^ Sciences-Po), "Maurras (1858 (sic)-1952): ou le mythe d'une droite révolutionnaire" Archived 26 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, article first published in L'Histoirein 2002 (in French)
- ^ Biographical notice from Chr. Biet, J.-Paul Brighelli, J.-Luc Rispail, Guide des auteurs, de la critique, des genres et des mouvements, Magnard, 1984 (in French)
- ^ Michel Pauly: Geschichte Luxemburgs p.83 (2013)(ISBN 9783406622250)
- ^ Zeev Sternhell, Maurice Barrès et le nationalisme français, Bruxelles, Complexe, 1985
- ^ Michel Winock, Le Siècle des intellectuel, Paris, Seuil, 1997
- ^ P.A. Taguieff, « Le nationalisme des nationalistes. Un problème pour l'histoire des idées politiques en France » in Théories de la nation, sous la direction de Gil Delannoi et de Pierre André Taguieff, Paris, Kimé, 1991
- ^ University of Paris-X), Le peuple français chez Maurice Barrès: une entité insaisissable entre unité et diversité, 2 February 2007 (Paper read during the conference « 'Peuple' et 'Volk' : réalité de fait, postulat juridique » organized at the University of Paris X-Nanterre on 10 December 2005 (in French)
- R. LaffontBouquins, 1994, p.615
- ^ See his discourse of reception at the Académie française Archived 7 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine on 17 January 1907 (in French)
- ^ Le « grand remplacement » de Maurice Barrès, Désintox, ARTE https://es-es.facebook.com/28minutes/videos/601716683701994/
- ^ ISSN 1130-2402.
- ISSN 1764-7193.
- ^ Archilés Cardona 2018.
- ISSN 1139-9368.
- ^ The Bookman. Vol. 56. 1923. p. 655.
Further reading
- Bourne, Randolph S. (1914). "Maurice Barres and the Youth of France", The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CXIV, No. 3, pp. 394–399.
- Bregy, Katherine (1927). "Mysteries and Maurice Barrès," Commonweal, p. 468.
- Cabeen, D. C. (1929). "Maurice Barrès and the 'Young' Reviews," Modern Language Notes, Vol. 44, No. 8, pp. 532–537.
- Cheydleur, F. D. (1926). "Maurice Barres: Author and Patriot", The North American Review, Vol. CCXXIII, No. 830, pp. 150–156.
- Clyne, Anthony (1920). "Maurice Barrès," The Contemporary Review, Vol. CXVII, pp. 682–688.
- Curtis, Michael (1959). Three Against the Third Republic: Sorel, Barrès and Maurras. Transaction Publishers.
- Eccles, F. Y. (1908). "Maurice Barrès", The Dublin Review, Vol. CXLIII, No. 286, pp. 244–263.
- Doty, C. Stewart (1976). From Cultural Rebellion to Counterrevolution: The Politics of Maurice Barrès. Ohio University Press.
- Evans, Silvan (1962). Eastern Bastion: The Life and Works of Maurice Barrès: A Short Centenary Study. Ilfracombe: A.H. Stockwell.
- Fleming, Thomas (2011). "Colette Baudoche by Maurice Barrès", Chronicles Magazine.
- Gide, André (1959). "The Barrès Problem." In: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality. New York: Meridan Books, pp. 74–90.
- Gosse, Edmund (1914). "M. Maurice Barrès". In: French Profiles. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 287–295.
- Greaves, Anthony A. (1978). Maurice Barrès. Boston: Twayne Publishers.
- Grover, M. (1969). "The Inheritors of Maurice Barrès", The Modern Language Review, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 529–545.
- Guérard, Albert Léon (1916). "Maurice Barrés". In: Five Masters of French Romance. London: T. Fisher Unwin, pp. 216–248.
- Hufnagel, Henning (2015). "All the Colours of the East. 'Ideological Geography', Orientalism, and the Fluctuating Semantics of the East in the Works of Maurice Barrès". Babel. 32 (32): 195–219. doi:10.4000/babel.4300.
- Huneker, James (1909). "The Evolution of an Egoist: Maurice Barrès". In: Egoists: A Book of Supermen. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 207–235.
- Hutchinson, Hilary (1994). "Gide and Barrès: Fifty Years of Protest", The Modern Language Review, Vol. 89, No. 4, pp. 856–864.
- Maloney, Wendi A. (1988). Maurice Barrès and the Cult of Adolescence. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Ouston, Philip (1974). The Imagination of Maurice Barrès. University of Toronto Press.
- Perry, Catherine (1998). "Reconfiguring Wagner's Tristan: Political Aesthetics in the Works of Maurice Barrès"", French Forum, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 317–335.
- Robinson, Agnes Mary Frances (1919). "Maurice Barrès." In: Twentieth Century French Writers. London: W. Collins Sons & Co., pp. 1–33.
- Scheifley, William H. (1924). "Maurice Barrès," The Sewanee Review, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 464–473.
- Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley (1914). "Maurice Barrès", The New Republic, Vol. I, No. 6, p. 26.
- Stephens, Winifred (1908). "Maurice Barrès, 1862". In: French Novelists of Today. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, pp. 179–220.
- Souday, Paul (1924). "Maurice Barrès", The Living Age, Vol. CCCXX, No. 4153, pp. 269–271.
- Soucy, Robert (1963). The Image of the Hero in the Works of Maurice Barrès and Pierre Drieu la Rochelle. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Soucy, Robert (1967). "Barrès and Fascism", French Historical Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 67–97.
- Stephens, Winifred (1919). The France I Know. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company.
- Thorold, Algar (1916). "The Ideas of Maurice Barrès", The Edinburgh Review, Vol. CCXXIII, No. 455, pp. 83–99.
- Trevor Field (1982). Maurice Barrès. London: Grant & Cutler, Ltd.
- Turquet-Milnes, G. (1921). "Maurice Barrès." In: Some Modern French Writers. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, pp. 79–106.
- Shenton, Gordon (1979). The Fictions of the Self: The Early Works of Maurice Barrès. U.N.C. Department of Romance Languages.
- Soucy, Robert (1972). Fascism in France: The Case of Maurice Barrès. University of California Press.
- Sternhell, Zeev (1971). "Barres et la Gauche: Du Boulangisme a "la Cocarde" (1889–1895)", Le Mouvement Social, Vol. 95, pp. 77–130.
- Sternhell, Zeev (1973). "National Socialism and Antisemitism: The Case of Maurice Barrès", Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 47–66.
- Suleiman, Susan Rubin (1980). "The Structure of Confrontation: Nizan, Barrès, Malraux," MLN, Vol. 95, No. 4, 938–967.
- Virtanen, Reino (1947). "Barrès and Pascal," PMLA, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 802–823.
- Weber, Eugen (1975). "Inheritance and Dilettantism: the Politics of Maurice Barrès", Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 109–131.
In foreign languages
- René Jacquet (1900). Notre Maître Maurice Barrès, Librairie Nilsson.
- J. Ernest Charles (1907). La Carrière de Maurice Barrès, Académicien, E. Sansot & Cie.
- René Gillouin (1907). Maurice Barrès, E. Sansot & Cie.
- Henri Massis (1909). La Pensée de Maurice Barrès, Mercure de France.
- Nicolas Beauduin (1910). "L'Evolution de Maurice Barrès", Quelques Uns, No. 1.
- Jean Herluison (1911). Maurice Barrès et le Problème de l'Ordre, Nouvelle Librairie Nationale.
- Jacques Jary (1912). Essai sur l'Art et la Psychologie de Maurice Barrès, Emile-Paul.
- Paul Bourget (1924). La Leçon de Barrès, À la Cité des Livres.
- François Mauriac (1945). La Rencontre avec Barrès, La Table Ronde.
- Albert Garreau (1945). Barrès, Défenseur de la Civilisation, Éditions des Loisirs.
- Sarah Vajda (2000). Maurice Barrès, Flammarion.
External links
- Works by Maurice Barrès at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Maurice Barrès at Internet Archive
- Barrès' Speeches at the Académie française (in French)
- Letters between Barrès and Anna de Noailles (audio) (in French)
- Dreyfus Rehabilitated Archived 19 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine
- Barrès, Maurice (1862–1923), at Gallica
- Newspaper clippings about Maurice Barrès in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW